“If we had not sent the National Guard, Los Angeles would be burning at this time!” Donald Trump justified, at a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, June 10, his decision to send the army to Los Angeles, where demonstrations against ice arrests, the Federal Immigration Police take place.
In his truth of the social network, the US president conveyed his speech, in which he states that the situation last night in Los Angeles was “terrible”, and that without the intervention of the army, the city, which “was besieged”, would be “burning.”
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In this same oratory, the US president said that protesters in Los Angeles were “paid insurgents, paid fuss.” “I had never seen that before,” he said, adding that “some bad people” had been arrested and were now detained.
The governor of California said he was going to file a complaint against the Trump administration for deploying the National Guard without his agreement. Gavin Newson described the measure as “deliberately incendiary.”
For his part, Donald Trump said that stopping the Californian governor would be “great.” “It is an undeniable step towards authoritarianism,” Gavin Newson reacted, who denounces the deployment of the 700 marinas and 2,000 members of the National Guard in Los Angeles.
Source: BFM TV
